Single-player games like The Automatician
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Automatician, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Quern - Undying Thoughts
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Automatician.
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
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The Last Campfire
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Automatician.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
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Botany Manor
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Automatician.
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
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Eastward
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Automatician.
Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…
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TOHU
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Automatician.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
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The Sojourn
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Automatician.
The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.
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Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Automatician.
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
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LOST EMBER
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Automatician.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
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Einar
Single-player alternative to The Automatician — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Automatician.
The player takes on the role of Einar, who is on a quest to kill the inhabitants of a Norse fishing village who are infected by a mysterious material. Use different weapons such as the bow, hammer and axe to clear the village of the monsters.